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MILWAUKEE, May 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — With riding season finally in full swing, motorists and motorcyclists alike might be surprised at who's behind the handlebars. Roughly 12 percent of the country's motorcycle owners now are women – an increase of about 30 percent over the last decade, according to the latest estimate from the Motorcycle Industry Council[1].
Harley-Davidson, the top-selling motorcycle brand among women in the U.S.[2], sold more new on-road motorcycles to women in the U.S. than all other brands combined in 2013[3], perhaps because more women are realizing the benefits of riding can extend to their daily lives, off the road.
According to a study conducted by Kelton and commissioned by Harley-Davidson, women riders are more than twice as likely to always feel happy (37 percent of riders vs. 16 percent of non-riders) and more than a third (34 percent) reported that they felt less stressed after starting to ride. Further, nearly four times as many always feel sexy (27 percent of riders vs. 7 percent of non-riders), and nearly twice as many always feel confident (35 percent of riders vs. 18 percent of non-riders).
"Thousands of women have found that riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle is a powerful way to tap into their strength, independence and confidence and take it to a whole new level," said Claudia Garber, Director of Market Outreach for Harley-Davidson. "Research shows the positive impact riding has on women, so we invite all those who dream of the open road to get started on the journey."
More Ways Life is Better on Two Wheels
According to the Harley-Davidson Women Riders Survey, the benefits of riding continue:
- In work: More riders than non-riders (40% vs. 18%) feel extremely satisfied with their careers.
- In the mirror: More than twice as many riders as non-riders (32% vs. 15%) agree that they feel beautiful daily.
- In relationships: Women who ride are more content with communication with their significant other (60 percent of riders vs. 38 percent of non-riders) and physical intimacy (51 percent of riders vs. 35 percent of non-riders).
- In spirit: More riders than non-riders (75% vs. 64%) usually feel content instead of worried, and almost a quarter (23%) of riders report that they rarely or never feel anxious.
How to Get Started on the Road To Happiness
Since the company's earliest days, Harley-Davidson has inspired thousands of women to explore the road not (yet) taken, embracing the confidence and strength they find through riding. There is no better time than May, Women Riders Month, to turn inspiration to realization, and Harley-Davidson offers some great ways for women to get started.
- For those ready to roll: The all-new Harley-Davidson™ Riding Academy is the only national rider training program hosted by Harley-Davidson® dealerships. Students will learn to ride on the new Harley-Davidson Street™ 500 motorcycle, which boasts confidence-inspiring handling and agility that makes it the ideal vehicle for learning to ride.
- For those seeking inspiration: Garage Party™ events are designed with women in mind and offer a fun, no-pressure introduction for non-riders who have little or no prior knowledge of motorcycles. Attendees will learn the basics, including motorcycle controls, bike fitment and what gear and apparel they need to get started and feel comfortable and confident on two wheels. Participating dealers also offer the JUMPSTART™ demo, a stationary test ride experience where women can swing a leg over a real Harley-Davidson® motorcycle, start its engine and learn how to shift through the gears. No riding experience necessary.
Visit www.h-d.com/women to find a Riding Academy class or Garage Party™ event in your area.
About Harley-Davidson Motor Company
Harley-Davidson Motor Company produces custom, cruiser and touring motorcycles and offers a complete line of Harley-Davidson® motorcycle parts, accessories, riding gear and apparel, and general merchandise. For more information, visit Harley-Davidson's website at www.h-d.com.
About the Harley-Davidson Female Riders Survey
The Harley-Davidson Female Riders Survey was conducted by Kelton, a leading global insights firm, May 20 to May 28, 2013 among 1,013 adult American women who ride motorcycles sometimes or regularly and 1,016 adult American women who never ride motorcycles, using an email invitation and an online survey.
Results of any sample are subject to sampling variation. The magnitude of the variation is measurable and is affected by the number of interviews and the level of the percentages expressing the results. For each sample, the chances are 95 in 100 that a survey result does not vary, plus or minus, by more than 3.1 percentage points from the result that would be obtained if interviews had been conducted with all persons in the universe represented by the sample. The margin of error for any subgroups will be slightly higher.
[1] Source: MIC Moto/ATV Owner Survey
[2] Source: R.L. Polk & Co.
[3] Source: R.L. Polk & Co.


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I am having trouble with notations like 1 cm$^{-3}$, especially since I am converting them between compound units.
Is there a way to express 1 cmcm$^{-3}$ without writing the negative exponent?
The particular queston I was asked was:
The EC standard for lead in the atmosphere is 2 µg/m$^{−3}$. Express this value in scientific notation in g/cm$^{−3}$, to an appropriate number of significant figures.
I have never run into these before, and I have serious problems coming to grips with the notation.
$1\cdot10 ^{ -3}$ would be fine, but 1 * cm$^{−3}$ just seems weird.
But, I simply have a hard time visualising these quantities. Can someone suggest a way to imagine them, or motivate the need for a negative exponent attached to a number of units?
What does the negative exponent actually mean?
Also, is there a term for these?
Typing into google gives.
1 (centimetre^(-3)) = 1 000 000 m^-3
Which is not helpful at all.

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OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Don't expect Jim Caldwell to
incorporate the triple-option or a variety of trick plays in his
first NFL game as an offensive coordinator.
Caldwell grabbed the reins of the Baltimore Ravens' offense on
Monday after coach John Harbaugh fired Cam Cameron. Caldwell
was in his first year as Baltimore's quarterbacks coach, a job he
will retain moving forward.
For his first assignment as an offensive coordinator, the
57-year-old Caldwell will be asked to oversee and direct an attack
that must outdo Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning, whom
Caldwell coached in Indianapolis.
"It may seem like a bit of a novelty, but it isn't," Caldwell
said Thursday. "We both have a job to do."
Caldwell takes over a unit that has is ranked 18th in total
yardage and has been inconsistent throughout the season. With only
three weeks to go, he intends to tweak the offense rather than
overhaul it.
"Obviously there's not going to be a system change of any
sort," he said. "I'll add a few wrinkles here and there. For the
most part, I think the guys are comfortable with what we do. I've
got to find what best suits our personnel and utilize that. Do the
things that we do best."
Cameron was criticized for not using running back Ray Rice
enough, and others questioned whether quarterback Joe Flacco showed
improvement from a year ago. Caldwell wouldn't tip his hand on how
he intends to utilize either player, but it appears as if he can't
wait to put his stamp on a unit with plenty of weapons.
"The reason why I coach is that I have a great passion for the
game," he said. "I love a challenge. There is nothing about
professional football that's easy. So it's going to require
everything you have and just a little bit more. That's what makes
me excited about what we're doing."
His only wish was that this opportunity came under different
"The situation is tough. I hate to see a colleague lose his
job," Caldwell said. "I've been fired a few times as well. That's
the tough part of it. But nevertheless I certainly am excited about
having the opportunity to work with some outstanding men in a great
organization with outstanding people surrounding me. Let's see what
we can do."
Flacco, like many players on the team, was stunned to see
Cameron dismissed -- especially at a time when the Ravens needed
only one more win to clinch a fifth consecutive playoff berth. But
Baltimore (9-4) has lost two in a row, and with a defense depleted
by injury, it was time for the offense to take charge and make
things happen.
"I think as an offense, we have to look at ourselves and see
what we can do to be better," Flacco said. "Obviously, we weren't
good enough."
With Caldwell at the helm, things won't be much different -- although he intends to work in the booth rather than on the sideline, as Cameron did.
"Anytime you've been coaching quarterbacks, the offense runs
through you," Caldwell said. "That's what I've always been
excited about."
Quite a change for a guy who was a four-year starter at
defensive back for Iowa from 1973-76 and began his coaching career
working with the defense.
"I went to the offensive side of the ball to get a good sense
of balance and things of that nature," Caldwell said. "I wanted
to really know offensive football. So the great majority of the
latter part of my career has been on offense. There's not anything
that you should not know if you're coaching the quarterbacks
because you're involved in every situation."
Now, though, he will be responsible for calling the plays.
Whether he maintains the job after this season remains to be seen.
"You know what? I don't look any further than the next day,"
he said. "Nothing's promised to you. In the Bible it tells you
that. What I do is do my job. We'll worry about the other things
down the road."
Caldwell was head coach at Indianapolis from 2009-11. He was
fired after the team went 2-14 in 2011, but still harbors hopes of
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"I think if you're in this business that should always be your
goal. Right?" he said. "I don't think I'll ever lose that
particular desire until the point in time when they run me out of
this business."


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...making Linux just a little more fun!
By Aditya Nag, Howard Dyckoff, and Samuel Kotel Bisbee-vonKaufmann
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The big news in January was the merger of Open Source Development Labs and Free Standards Group. The new organization hopes to accelerate Linux growth by providing a comprehensive set of services to compete effectively with proprietary platforms. Founding platinum members of Linux Foundation include Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, NEC, Novell, and Oracle. Jim Zemlin, Free Standards Group's former executive director, leads the Linux Foundation. Other members include every major company in the Linux industry, including Red Hat, as well as numerous community groups, universities, and industry end-users.
Of course, Linus Torvalds need not fear, since the new foundation announced that it will continue to sponsor his work. The Foundation's major goals include protecting Linux by sponsoring key Linux developers, and providing legal services. The press release states: "It is vitally important that Linux creator Linus Torvalds and other key kernel developers remain independent. Linux Foundation sponsors them so they can work full time on improving Linux. Linux Foundation also manages the Linux trademark (http://www.linuxmark.org) and offers developers legal intellectual property protection through such initiatives as the Open Source as Prior Art project (http://www.osapa.org), the Patent Commons http://www.patent-commons.org), and sponsorship of the Linux Legal Defense Fund."
Other major goals are standardizing Linux and improving it as a platform for software development, and providing a neutral forum for collaboration and promotion.
The merger is pending ratification by the two organizations' respective memberships, and is expected to be completed in early February. For more information, please visit http://www.linux-foundation.org.
The Fedora Group recently held a three-day summit to establish short- and long-term plans for future Fedora Projects. The summit drew 10 top Red Hat and Fedora team members to the table, including Jesse Keating, Fedora's release engineer; Fedora developer Jeremy Katz; engineer and original Fedora Project founder Warren Togami; Greg DeKoenigsberg, community development manager for Red Hat; and Fedora Project Leader Max Spevack. The meeting was also transcribed live to an IRC channel, where more that 100 members of the community contributed.
The summit resulted in a road map that will lead to changes for the community as a whole. The most important change is the merging of Fedora Core and Fedora Extras. It is hoped that this will lead to lowering a barrier for community involvement, and increase the contributions made by Red Hat and members of the Open Source community as a whole.
Linux.com has a detailed write-up on the summit here.
The legendary Jeremy Allison (of Samba fame) has resigned from Novell in protest over the Microsoft-Novell patent agreement. He felt that the deal was "a mistake" that will be "damaging to Novell's success in the future." His main issue with the deal, though, was "that even if it does not violate the letter of the licence, it violates the intent of the GPL licence the Samba code is released under, which is to treat all recipients of the code equally." He was quickly snapped up by Google, and has begun working there in the new year.
Groklaw has more details, as well as the entire text of Jeremy's letter to Novell.
Undeterred by harsh criticism over their controversial interoperability and patent protection agreement, Microsoft has managed to hand out over 16,000 subscription certificates for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Several large enterprise customers such as Deutsche Bank AG, Credit Suisse, and AIG Technologies have been amongst the first to take advantage of the new-found interoperability between Windows Server and SUSE Linux.
As part of the deal between the two companies, Microsoft said it would distribute 70,000 coupons a year for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, so that customers could benefit from the use of an interoperable version of Linux with patent coverage, as well as the collaborative work between the two companies.
According to eWeek, some of these seats might have come at Red Hat's expense. The Forrester Research group had earlier suggested that this might be the case, and, if these reports are true, Red Hat might be getting worried.
Sun Microsystems is following Oracle in attacking Red Hat, claiming that the leading open source Linux company is under-serving customers, and that Solaris can do the job better. "The big take-away is that it is not just the [Solaris] technology," said Rich Green, executive vice-president of software at Sun. "There is a vacuum that is not being served by Red Hat or served by Microsoft. We are well positioned and fully intend to fill the gap."
Sun offers free access to Solaris 10 as well as support that the company claims is 20 to 50 percent cheaper than Red Hat support, and is priced competitively with Oracle Red Hat support. Sun has always said that Solaris is superior (more robust, secure, and supportable) to Red Hat Linux or other distributions for enterprises as well as smaller businesses and startups, and there is some evidence of this.
Sun's attack on Red Hat might sound good on paper, but the actual success of this campaign will only be seen in a few months. Yahoo Finance has a write up on this.
The EU Commission's Final Report on its "Study on the Economic Impact of Open Source Software on Innovation and the Competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU" has just been released. The study was done by an international consortium, led by the United Nations University/University of Maastricht's department of innovation. The 287 page report is freely available.
This study categorically debunked the idea that total cost of ownership will rise if a company or a government switches to open source software. Section 12.7 of the study states: "Our findings show that, in almost all the cases, a transition toward open source reports of savings on the long term -- costs of ownership of the software products." Of course, training costs and other costs are a factor, but the study has taken these into account before coming to this conclusion.
This study should give an added impetus to the attempts of various EU members to switch to open source software.
Over the past several years, Audi AG, a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group, has been migrating its engineering systems to Linux. The company has been upgrading to 64-bit Linux for its Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) servers, whose simulation software allows designers to craft automobile components, engineers to run crash-test simulations, and other 3D visualizations. The move to X86_64 and Itanium 2 has allowed for better runtimes for CAE's power-hungry processes, using the architectures' larger caches.
Audi's migration is not limited to its servers, using Linux for its workstations, WebCenter intranet and Web applications, and public and private servers, using the array of publicly available packages. By cutting the number of operating systems employed, Audi cut IT costs. However, because machines became cheaper to employ, the number of machines grew, causing operating costs to remain relatively the same.
These considerations and others are outlined in the original article, along with quotations from Florian Kienast, Audi's spokesman.
Fab@Home is an open source project that provides a low-cost solution to desktop manufacturing. This self-assembled device fabricates 3D objects by layering liquid or powdered material, a process that was previously not feasible for individuals due to its high cost. Unlike many commercial machines of its kind, Fab@Home's fabricators can use different building materials: everything from silicone to chocolate. The fabricator is plugged into the user's computer, using software to control its mechanical functions.
Users of Fab@Home have contributed basic and advanced 3D designs to the community, allowing new users to climb a potentially steep learning curve more quickly; a catalog of these designs is hosted on Fab@Home's web site. Users of the fabricator are also encouraged to modify the design, hopefully contributing their ideas to the community.
Even the software client, which interfaces between the user and the fabricator, is open source; the source code was posted on 1/17/07.
NewScientist's article: http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10922-desktop-fabricator-may-kickstart-home-revolution.html
Fab@Home's web page: www.FabAtHome.org
Fab@Home's Source Forge page (for info on their software client): http://sourceforge.net/projects/fabathome/
Flameeyes (a Gentoo/FreeBSD developer) recently discovered serious licensing issues in the various *BSD projects who use BSD-4 licensed code. In a post on his blog, he states how he discovered the license problems with libkvm and start-stop-daemon. "libkvm is a userspace interface to FreeBSD kernel, and it's licensed under the original BSD license, BSD-4 if you want, the one with the nasty advertising clause." The good news is that the University of California/Berkeley has given people permission to drop the advertising clause. The bad news is that libkvm has code from many other sources, and each of them needs to give their permission for the license to be changed.
Linux.com has an article on this, and Slashdot has its usual blend of informative, funny, and off-topic comments on the subject. The problem seems to have been temporarily resolved, but could crop up again in different code.
Sun Microsystems is set to license OpenSolaris under the upcoming GNU General Public License Version 3 in addition to the existing Common Development and Distribution License, according to a story in eWeek. OpenSolaris currently is licensed only under Sun's CDDL. The article quotes sources as saying that this is very likely to happen after the release of that version of the GPL, which currently is being rewritten and is expected to be made final soon.
The article contains a lot of details about this possible switch.
After lots of feedback, bug fixing, and testing, the Fedora Project is pleased to announce the first official Fedora live CD. This live CD is based on packages from the Fedora Core 6 and Fedora Extras package collections, and comprises 100% free software. The live CD features ver 2.6.18 of the kernel, GNOME 2.16, AIGLX and Compiz, and the usual plethora of desktop applications. Some notable features are the inclusion of VPN connectivity through vnpc and OpenVPN, a R/W filesystem that allows you to install software on the running live CD, and the ability to run completely from RAM, if you have 1GB or more.
The CD can be downloaded here. Currently, the CD is only available for i386 architectures, but support for PPC and x86_64 is planned.
Linspire announced plans to expand its popular Click 'N Run digital download and software management service to support several of the most popular desktop Linux distributions in 2007. Previously available only for Linspire and Freespire desktop Linux users, the CNR service will begin providing users of other desktop Linux distributions a free and easy way to access over 20,000 desktop Linux products, packages, and libraries.
Initially, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and Ubuntu will be supported, using both .deb and .rpm packages. More distributions will be added, later this year. Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony goes into more detail about this in an interview with DesktopLinux.com.
Adobe Systems has released the long-awaited Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux. This version of Flash Player was meant to be feature-comparable to Adobe's latest Windows and Mac OS versions, and is the first version of Flash on Linux that is just as fast as the Windows and Mac OS versions.
Over at DesktopLinux.com, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reviewed the new version, and was rather pleased with a three-fold increase in performance.
The binary-only download is available directly from Adobe
Evergreen, an enterprise open source library management system, released version 1.0 in November. Also known as open-ILS, which stands for Integrated Library System, it catalogs and tracks a library's circulation of materials. Written in C, Javascript, and Perl, it provides client platforms for library management and a Web interface for public use. GPLed, Evergreen runs on Linux, Apache, PostreSQL, Jabber for messaging, and XUL for client-side software, using only open protocols. Furthermore, due to the technology used and the way it is written, Evergreen can be easily used on clusters.
The Georgia Public Library Service's (GPLS) network of libraries, PINES (Public Information Network for Electronic Services), is powered by Evergreen. GPLS consists of 44 public library systems, or 252 libraries, across multiple counties, encompassing nearly all of Georgia.
Linux.com article: http://enterprise.linux.com/enterprise/06/12/04/1538214.shtml?tid=101
Project page: www.open-ILS.org
GPLS's page: www.GeorgiaLibraries.org
PINES's page: www.GeorgiaLibraries.org/public/pines.html
The Asterisk dev team has released Asterisk 1.4.0, the first in the 1.4 series. The Asterisk project releases a major version about once a year. This series includes T.38 Fax over IP passthrough support, HTML manager, a new version of AEL (Asterisk Extension Language), IMAP storage of voicemail, Jabber/GoogleTalk integration, a jitterbuffer for RTP, whisper paging, and many other new features.
You can read more about it, and download the tarball.
The code for the Falcon Storage Engine for MySQL has been released as open source. Jim Starkey, known as the father of Interbase, is behind its creation; previously he was involved with the Firebird SQL database project. Falcon looks to be the long-awaited open source storage engine that may become the primary choice for MySQL, and along the way offer some innovation and performance improvements over current alternatives. This is an alpha release for Windows (32-bit) and Linux (32- and 64-bit) only, and is available only in a specially forked release of MySQL 5.1.
Downloads are available.
OpenVG is a standard API for hardware accelerated vector graphics. It's meant to accompany OpenGL on the road to a fully hardware-accelerated rendering framework. The first open source implementation was released by developer Zack Ruskin. Details are still sketchy, but there is some information on his blog and in a posting to the Khronos OpenVG forum.
The implementation is licensed under the GNU GPL v2 license, and depends on the cross-platform Qt library. The OpenVG implementation, along with the mandatory animated gears example, is available as a tarball at http://ktown.kde.org/~zrusin/dev/openvg.tar.bz2. A Git repository is available from http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/zack/openvg.git;a=summary
Project Looking Glass is a free software project under the GPL to create an innovative 3D desktop environment for Linux, Solaris, and Windows. It is sponsored by Sun Microsystems. Version 1.0 was recently released, with this statement from the developers: "This release is the culmination of 3 years of work, starting with Hideya-san who originally conceived of a bold, new type of window system, through the initial shake down of the proof-of-concept demo by an internal Sun community, followed by the open sourcing of the technology, which generated such enormous interest that it brought down the java.net servers several times. From that point on, many people from around the globe have contributed to the project; contributing to the core, contributing applications, performing testing, writing and translating documentation, etc. The project owners (Hideya, Paul, Krishna and I) are very grateful for all of the great contributions we have received from you, the LG community."
You can download the build here.
CodeWeavers announced the new version of Crossover 6. Jeremy White, the CEO of CodeWeavers, highlighted the most important features of this new release in the following words:"...highlights are: Outlook 2003 and support for games, notably World of Warcraft and Steam based games. I can attest that World of Warcrac...er craft is the most well tested application we have ever supported."
So now you know what you need to get your WoW fix. Download here. This is a proprietary application, but they do have a trial version available.
In the same month in which Apple turned heads with its iPhone, Motorola made news with its RAZR Z6. This is Moto's first Linux-based smartphone for the US market, and also features a single-processor design for cost savings. For many smartphones, one processor runs a near-real-time OS for signal processing, and a separate application processor runs the GUI and PDA features. Here, RT extensions to the embedded Linux OS allow for all operations to run on a single processor.
The RAZR Z6 has a 2-megapixel camera, 64MB of memory, and a microSD slot plus USB 2.0 and Bluetooth. It is expected to ship by the summer.
Tresys, a primary contributor to Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux), today announced the commercial release of the Tresys Brickwall Security Suite, a powerful enterprise solution for using and managing SELinux. SELinux provides rich set of security functions, but IT administrators often lack the expertise needed to effectively configure these capabilities. Tresys Brickwall builds upon leading open-source technologies to control SELinux security functions without requiring special knowledge of the SELinux policy language.
Tresys Brickwall Security Suite includes three editions: Standard, Professional,and Enterprise, to meet varying levels of end-user needs. With the Enterprise edition, the first-ever network management console for SELinux, administrators can apply enhanced security across an entire enterprise, allowing administrators to configure SELinux for groups of systems and apply and monitor this security remotely. Key features of the suite include the ability to define network access settings for individual programs, built-in protection for many applications and services, customization of resource and file protection settings, and ability to create custom policy targets for new applications. The Standard Edition is a free version, while the Professional and Enterprise Editions provide scalable security for any size organization.
More information on the Tresys Brickwall Security Suite is available at www.tresys.com/products. Tresys-sponsored open source projects are available at http://oss.tresys.com.
Emulex Corporation announced plans to expand support for customers of the Oracle UnbreakableLinux support program across its LightPulse HBA product line. Working in close partnership, Emulex and Oracle intend to provide their joint customers a robust, fully supported solution. Emulex and Oracle continue to provide drivers and other key solutions to the Linux upstream kernel and the open source community. Both companies will continue their coordination to provide enhanced security, data protection, and connectivity solutions to the Linux developer and user communities.
More information at www.emulex.com.
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Sam is currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science at Boston University and continues to be involved in the FOSS community. Other hobbies include martial arts, writing, buildering, working, chess, and crossword puzzles. Then there is something about Linux, algorithms, programing, etc., but who makes money doing that?
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How to Defeat Space Aliens: A Moviegoer's Guide
By Bill Newcott, April 17, 2013 04:02 PM
Their scientific and technical know-how make the International Space Station look like a Tinkertoy (well, it actually does kinda look like a Tinkertoy...).
Still, as Tom Cruise proves in his new movie, Oblivion, it is surprisingly easy to fight back against space aliens. These classic sci-fi flicks provide an excellent primer in last-line-of-defense strategies against invaders from beyond the stars:
Teach Them Yoga
War of the Worlds (1953; 2005)
With those spindly arms and legs, the bending part comes easy to space aliens-but that deep, cleansing breath at the end of their first yoga session will kill them for sure. As we've learned time and again from every adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic, to space aliens the microbes in Earth's atmosphere are a silent but deadly air assault.
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Hit Them With a Baseball Bat
Signs (2002)
When all else fails, a good whack with a Louisville Slugger will stun a marauding space alien as effectively as any ray gun will, as Joaquin Phoenix discovers. It also helps to have the monster then stagger into an array of half-filled glasses of water, because the second lesson of Signs is that water will dissolve space alien skin faster than you can say, "Hey, careful with that water!"
Give Them a Dose of Slim Whitman
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Do they still advertise Slim Whitman records on late-night TV? If so, insomniac space aliens are doomed: In this, the funniest Martian movie ever made, the seemingly invincible invaders fall prey to a recording of Slim singing "Indian Love Call." Turns out the sound frequency of Slim's yodeling makes their brains explode in a flourish of green goo. Very satisfying.
Chase Them With Flashlights
E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1982)
They arrive in a space ship the size of the Rose Bowl, but for some reason E.T. and his space alien buddies spend the first few minutes of the classic movie totally freaked out by the flashlights wielded by the federal agents who are pursuing them. In fact, E.T. seems to hate flashlights as much as he loves Reeses' Pieces. Weird, since his finger is actually a little flashlight.
Fuhgeddabout 'Em
Forbidden Planet (1956)
In this groundbreaking sci-fi classic, Walter Pidgeon discovers that the murderous alien monster is all in his head. If only he could stop thinking about the space alien, it would disappear. But the more he tries not to think about it, the more the thought of it eats away at his mind. It's a lot like me and Dancing With the Stars.
Go Mano-a-Mano
Predator (1987)
If you really want to get under an Alien's skin, throw down your high-tech weapons and put up your dukes. That's what Arnold Schwarzenegger finally does after nearly two hours of being pursued by this classic's grotesque extraterrestrial villain. "Put 'em up!" Ah-nold yells (or something like that), signalling a death match fueled by hefty doses of intergalactic testosterone.
Throw 'Em in the Trunk
Repo Man (1984)
They never really explain how the four space aliens in this off-beat sci-fi cult flick died, but one thing's for sure: They turn up in the trunk of a 1964 Chevy Malibu. Of course, they also get the last laugh when the guy who stole the car (Fox Harris) goes insane from the radiation emitted by their bodies.
Just Leave 'em Be
It Came From Outer Space (1953)
One of the all-time great movie arguments on behalf of always taking a wait-and-see attitude is this space invasion classic, in which it turns out that the hideous eyeball-shaped aliens aren't threatening at all-they're just a bunch of bulbous beings whose ship broke down while passing by Earth. The hero (Richard Carlson) basically gets everyone in town to stand back and wait-and-see while the aliens change their tire, or whatever, so they can take off again. Just about the most passive solution ever concocted for a horror movie but, hey, whatever works.
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National Academy of Sciences' Study On Automobile Fuel Economy Standards: Statement by Jeff Bingaman Senate Energy Committee Chairman
July 31, 2001
"The National Academy of Sciences study on CAFE standards underscores two critical concerns that Americans have about energy and the environment: the levels of oil imports and greenhouse gas emissions. The overall use of petroleum fuels in our transportation sector has got to be addressed. Fuel efficiency improvements for passenger cars, SUVs and light trucks alone could reduce demand by 1.5 million barrels of oil a day. The academy's scholarly contribution to the fuel economy debate supports a view long advocated by Senate Democrats: America must continue to develop and implement new technologies and other mechanisms that will reduce the need for gasoline.
"I agree with the panel's finding that the Federal government has a responsibility to ensure fuel economy levels beyond those that might result from market conditions alone. While boosting vehicle fuel efficiency will be a central component of the legislation that we will begin marking up on Wednesday, we also work to assure that American consumers always have safe, affordable and reliable transportation services."
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NOTE: On Thursday, Aug. 2, at 2:30 p.m. in Hart 216, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation will hold a joint hearing on the NAS Report on Fuel Economy.


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LEGAL experts have challenged Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's assertion it is ''illegal'' for asylum seekers to arrive by boat in Australia.
Mr Abbott toughened his rhetoric against asylum seekers on Wednesday, saying more than 2000 are ''coming illegally to this country'' every month without papers.
''The people who have come illegally to this country need to know that they are breaking our laws, that they are, if I may say so, taking advantage, unfair advantage of our decency as a people,'' Mr Abbott said.
''There need to be consequences for people who do the wrong thing and that's what rigorous offshore processing is all about.''
Quizzed by reporters in Perth on the illegality claims, Mr Abbott stood firm.
''It is illegal to come to Australia without papers, without proper documentation, without adhering to the normal requirements that we expect of people coming to this country,'' he said.
But ANU international law professor Don Rothwell said it was clear it is not illegal to enter Australia without a visa and seek asylum.
''Any person who arrives at Australia's borders, whether it be at an airport or harbour or being intercepted by navy patrols is entitled to present an asylum claim to Australia,'' he said.
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said it was not illegal under Australian or international law to come to Australia and claim asylum.
''That's been pointed out to Mr Abbott on many occasions. He's a serial offender at repeating that,'' Mr Bowen told ABC radio.
David Manne, the executive director of the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre also disputed Mr Abbott's statement.
''Let me state simply what the law is and the law that we've in fact signed up to as a country... every person around the world has the right to seek and access asylum from persecution in another country. It's not an act which is illegal.''
But the Coalition's border protection spokesman Michael Keenan defended Mr Abbott.
''I find this debate about whether it's illegal or not to come here without permission is a little bit bemusing. Of course it's not legal or lawful to cross people's borders without permission and without the correct documentation,'' he told Sky News.


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HISTORY of the CHRISTIAN CHURCH*
(Fifth Edition.)
Since the third revision of this volume in 1889, the following works deserving notice have appeared till September, 1893. (P. S.)
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E. Bernheim Lehrbuch der historischen Methode. Mit Nachweis der wichtigsten Quellen und Hilfsmittel zum Studium der Geschichte. Leipzig, 1889.
Edward Bratke: Wegweiser zur Quellen- und Literaturkunde der Kirchengeschichte. Gotha, 1890 (282 pp.).
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H. Brueck (Mainz, 5th ed., 1890).
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Of the Church History of Kurtz (who died at Marburg, 1890), an 11th revised edition appeared in 1891.
Wilhelm Moeller (d. at Kiel, 1891): Lehrbuch der Kirchengeschichte. Freiburg, 1891. 2 vols., down to the Reformation. Vol. III. to be added by Kawerau. Vol. I. translated by Rutherford. London, 1892.
Karl Mueller (Professor in Breslau): Kirchengeschichte. Freiburg, 1892. A second volume will complete the work. An excellent manual from the school of Ritschl-Harnack.
Harnack's large Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte was completed in 1890 in 3 vols. Of his Grundriss, a 2d ed. appeared in 1893 (386 pp.); translated by Edwin K. Mitchell, of Hartford, Conn.: Outlines of the History of Dogma. New York, 1893.
Friedrich Loofs (Professor of Church History in Halle, of the Ritschl-Harnack school): Leitfaden zum Studium der Dogmengeschichte. Halle, 1889; 3d ed., 1893.
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5th revision, 1889–93, 7 vols. (including vol. v., which is in press). Page 51. After "Fisher" add:
John Fletcher Hurst (Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church): Short History of the Christian Church. New York, 1893.
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Franz Delitzsch (d. 1890): Messianische Weissagungen in geschichtlicher Folge. Leipzig, 1890. His last work. Translated by Sam. Ives Curtiss (of Chicago), Edinb. and New York, 1892.
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Samuel J. Andrews: Life of our Lord. "A new and wholly revised edition." New York, 1891 (651 pp.). With maps and illustrations. Maintains the quadripaschal theory. Modest, reverent, accurate, devoted chiefly to the chronological and topographical relations.
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On the Apocryphal Traditions of Christ, comp. throughout
Alfred Resch: Agrapha. Aussercanonische Evangelienfragmente gesammelt und untersucht. With an appendix of Harnack on the Gospel Fragment of Tajjum. Leipzig, 1889 (520 pp.). By far the most complete and critical work on the extra-canonical sayings of our Lord, of which he collects and examines 63 (see p. 80), including many doubtful ones, e.g., the much-discussed passage of the Didache (I. 6) on the sweating of aloes.
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Abbé Constant Fouard: Saint Peter and the First Years of Christianity. Translated from the second French edition with the author's sanction, by George F. X. Griffith. With an Introduction by Cardinal Gibbons. New York and London, 1892 (pp. xxvi, 422). The most learned work in favor of the traditional Roman theory of a twenty-five years' pontificate of Peter in Rome from 42 to 67.
The apocryphal literature of Peter has received an important addition by the discovery of fragments of the Greek Gospel and Apocalypse of Peter in a tomb at Akhmim in Egypt. See Harnack's ed. of the Greek text with a German translation and commentary, Berlin, 1892 (revised, 1893); Zahn's edition and discussion, Leipzig, 1893; and O. von Gebhardt's facsimile ed., Leipzig, 1893; also the English translation by J. Rendel Harris, London, 1893.
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W. H. Ramsey (Professor of Humanity in the University of Aberdeen): The Church in the Roman Empire before a.d. 170. With Maps and Illustrations. London and New York, 1893 (494 pp.). An important work, for which the author received a gold medal from Pope Leo XIII. The first part (pp. 3–168) treats of the missionary journeys of Paul in Asia Minor, on the ground of careful topographical exploration and with a full knowledge of Roman history at that time. He comes to the conclusion that nearly all the books of the New Testament can no more be forgeries of the second century than the works of Horace and Virgil can be forgeries of the time of Nero. He assumes all "travel-document," which was written down under the immediate influence of Paul, and underlies the account in The Acts of the Apostles (Acts. 13–21), which he calls "an authority of the highest character for an historian of Asia Minor" (p. 168). He affirms the genuineness of the Pastoral Epistles, which suit the close of the Neronian period (246 sqq.), and combats Holtzmann. He puts 2 Peter to the age of "The Shepherd of Hermas" before 130 (p. 432). As to the First Epistle of Peter, he assumes that it was written about 80, soon after Vespasian's resumption of the Neronian policy (279 sqq.). If this date is correct, it would follow either that Peter cannot have been the author, or that he must have long outlived the Neronian persecution. The tradition that he died a martyr in Rome is early and universal, but the exact date of his death is uncertain.
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Of Weizsaecker's Das Apostolische Zeitalter, which is chiefly devoted to Paul, a second edition has appeared in 1892, slightly revised and provided with an alphabetical index (770 pp.). It is the best critical history of the Apostolic age from the school of Dr. Baur, whom Dr. Weizsaecker succeeded as professor of Church history in Tuebingen, but gives no references to literature and other opinions.
Charles Carroll Everett: The Gospel of Paul. New York, 1893.
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Rodolfo Lanciani: Pagan and Christian Rome. New York, 1893 (pp. x, 374). A very important work which shows from recent explorations that Christianity entered more deeply into Roman Society in the first century than is usually supposed.
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Henry William Watkins: Modern Criticism in its relation to the Fourth Gospel; being the Bampton Lectures for 1890. London, 1890. Only the external evidence, but with a history of opinions since Breitschneider's Probabilia.
Paton J. Gloag: Introduction to the Johannine Writings. London, 1891 (pp. 440). Discusses the critical questions connected with the Gospel, the Epistles, and the Apocalypse of John from a liberal conservative standpoint.
E. Schuerer: On the Genuineness of the Fourth Gospel. In the "Contemporary Review" for September, 1891.
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E. Loening: Die Gemeindeverfassung des Urchristenthums. Halle, 1889—CH. De Smedt: L'organisation des églises chrétiennes jusqu'au milieu du 3e siècle. 1889.
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Gregory: Prolegomena to Tischendorf, Pt. II., 1890. (Pt. III. will complete this work.)
Schaff: Companion to the Greek Testament, 4th ed. revised, 1892.
Salmon: Introduction to the New Testament, 5th ed., 1890.,
Holtzmann: Introduction to the New Testament, 3d ed., 1892.
F. Godet: Introduction au Nouveau Testament. Neuchatel, 1893. The first volume contains the Introduction to the Pauline Epistles; the second and third will contain the Introduction to the Gospels, the Catholic Epp. and the Revelation. To be translated.
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Robinson's Harmony, revised edition, by M B. Riddle (Professor in Allegheny Theological Seminary), New York, 1885.
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Friedrich Spitta: Die Apostelgeschichte, ihre Quellen und ihr historischer Wert. Halle, 1891 (pp. 380). It is briefly criticised by Ramsey.
* Schaff, Philip, History of the Christian Church, (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.) 1997. This material has been carefully compared, corrected¸ and emended (according to the 1910 edition of Charles Scribner's Sons) by The Electronic Bible Society, Dallas, TX, 1998.


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Richmond Bicycle Master Plan
On November 1, 2011, the Richmond City Council adopted a new Bicycle Master Plan. The Plan sets forth a blueprint for completion of a 145-mile system of bikeways and support facilities within Richmond. The Plan builds upon the existing system of on-street and off-street bicycle facilities throughout the City, focusing on connections between neighborhoods, safe routes to schools and access to major destinations such as employment centers, stores and shops, parks, trails and open space areas. The Plan also includes criteria for defining different types of bicycle facilities, a listing of priority projects, recommendations for increasing the supply of bicycle parking, design standards and education and safety programs. The City of Richmond seeks to achieve the following goals as a result of the Bicycle Master Plan's implementation:
Sections from the adopted Bicycle Master Plan can be downloaded below. All development projects approved in the City must be consistent with the goals and policies of the adopted plan.
Plan Sections
- Goal 1: Expand the city's bicycle routes and parking facilities into an extensive, well-connected and well-designed network, and improve and maintain these facilities over time.
- Goal 2: Increase the number of people of all ages and backgrounds who bicycle for transportation, recreation and health.
- Goal 3: Make the streets safer for bicyclists, not only during the day but also at night.
- Goal 4: Incorporate the needs and concerns of cyclists in all transportation and development projects
Sections from the adopted Bicycle Master Plan can be downloaded below. All development projects approved in the City must be consistent with the goals and policies of the adopted plan.
Plan Sections
- Cover and Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments and List of Acronyms
- Executive Summary
- 1 - Introduction
- 2 - Related Plans
- 3 - Policy Framework
- 4 - Background Information
- 5 - Existing Bicycle Network
- 6 - Proposed Bicycle Network
- 7 - Bicycle Parking
- 8 - Collisions
- 9 - Support Programs
- 10 - Funding and Implementation
- Appendix A - Proposed Bicycle Routes
- Appendix B - Design Guidelines
- Appendix C- Proposed Underpass Improvements


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I would need to clarify which one is correct. My dictionary says "run somebody over" (meaning hit by car) and an example:
I ran over the dog.
On the internet I found:
I'm afraid we've just run a rabbit over.
But it too says "run somebody/something over". What is the correct word order? What about the passive (e.g., somebody committed suicide)?
He got himself ran over.


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In July, the Engineering Integrity Society (EIS) ran the Fatigue 2017 conference at Downing College in Cambridge, UK. The Society was very proud to be able to restart this conference series after a 10-year break, with a meeting of industrial and research practitioners, in all aspects of fatigue of materials. The conference incorporated the competition for the "Durability Prize" for best young presenter; this year the award had been renamed as the Peter Watson Prize, in memory of the former president and founding member of the Society, who passed away in 2015.
We would like to thank all of the candidates for the Peter Watson Prize—all of them presented well on good quality work. It was very encouraging to see that EIS young engineers and scientists represented nearly one fifth of the conference. Their range of work encompassed the full scope of the society, from early applied research through to development and industrial problem solving. It was pleasing to see a large number of international delegates, with exceptional efforts made by guests from Japan.
Student entrants for the Peter Watson Prize, Downing College, Cambridge, July 2017.
The winner of the Peter Watson Prize was Ms Eimear O'Hara from NUI Galway. She currently studies effects on high temperature performance of new materials for power plants. The judges felt that O'Hara effectively used a wide range of investigative techniques and that her work was clearly presented with good interpretation of results and research outcomes.
The Peter Watson Prize winner, Ms Eimear O'Hara from NUI Galway with Dr John Yates, July 2017.
The panel also awarded the position of highly commended to Ms Anke Schmiedt from TU Dortmund, for her work on corrosion fatigue of brazed joints. This was a difficult decision with several excellent runners-up; Schmiedt's work was not only rigorous and well presented, but also had a direct focus on understanding an industrial problem. It seems to fit particularly well with the aim of the society in bridging the gap between scientific research and commercial engineering.
Highly commended awards to Ms Anke Schmiedt from TU Dortmund with Dr John Yates, July 2017.
Instron would like to congratulate all the entrants who participated in the Peter Watson Prize award and to thank the Engineering Integrity Society for hosting Fatigue 2017.


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I am a bit confused about the expected running times of brute force attacks on different cryptosystems.
So let's assume a key size of $2^n$ bits.
Symmetric key cryptography:
$E(brute)$ = $2^{n-1}\cdot$ comparisons time
So if I understood correctly I need to generate all the possible $2^n$ keys to find the "right" key for sure. Now taken into account the definition of Expected Value of a random variable $X$, that can take the value $x_i$ with $p_i$: $E[X] = \sum p_i \times x_i$. So in our case we can say that $k=2^n$ and $E[X] = \frac{k(k+1)}{2}\cdot \frac{1}{k} = \frac{k+1}{2} \approx 2^{n-1}$.
Cryptographic hashes
Following the birthday paradox analogy and approximating the required time we end up with $E[X] = \sqrt{2^n} = 2^{n/2}$ comparisons.
My confusion comes from public key cryptography and from ECC: in this post ECC is nicely described, but it says that on average you must guess $2^{n/2}$ keys. I don't really understand where this number comes from as you are not searching for a collision as in the case of hashes, but for an exact match.


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New Owner of Harbor Square in Stamford Sees Potential
When Doug Winshall visited Stamford in 2007 and saw a collection of four brick commercial buildings overlooking the east branch of Stamford Harbor, he saw their potential and knew they would be a solid addition to his company's real estate portfolio.
But Winshall, managing principal of ClearRock Properties in New York City, also realized that he had to be patient and wait for the right price for the portfolio of properties at 700, 850, 860 and 880 Canal St., also called Harbor Square.
"In 2007, the prices got way too high, but we kept an eye on the market there," said Winshall, who tracks listings of non-performing commercial loans on various websites. "When the nonperforming loan came up, we jumped at the chance."
ClearRock purchased the non-performing mortgage in May and, working with the seller, First Niagara Bank, recently completed foreclosure proceedings. Winshall would not discuss the acquisition price, saying only that it was below market value.
According to public records, in 2007, when Antares SHS acquired the properties, the prices for 850, 700 and 880 Canal St. were $16 million, $15 million and $4 million, respectively. The price for the fourth building, 860 Canal St., was not listed.
ClearRock completed a friendly foreclosure for three of the buildings, 850, 700 and 880, but because of lingering problems regarding the building at 860, the company had to complete a strict foreclosure through the courts for 860 and put an allocation price of $6.9 million on that single property, which Winshall acknowledged was a fraction of the overall cost for all four. Since ClearRock bought the debt for the properties and foreclosed on that debt, information regarding the transaction is not on public record.
Impressed by progress made by Building and Land Technology's neighboring 80-acre Harbor Point mixed-use development, Winshall didn't wait for the purchase of the mortgage to enter the Stamford market. Before acquiring the buildings, his company last year bought 1 Dock St., in the same district. Winshall has been pleased with the results.
"We've done very well with it — the leasing velocity, activity and pricing," said Winshall, adding that lease rates are in the low-$30 range. "It was 80 percent leased when we bought it, and now we're literally 99 percent leased." He estimates that the lease rates for the four newly acquired properties will be in the same range after improvements are made. Historically, the rates have been in the $20s per square foot, but Winshall said the changes will warrant the increase.
ClearRock has hired MKDA, an architectural firm with offices in New York City and Stamford, to design the renovations.
The first building to be addressed will be 700 Canal St., an 85,000-square-foot structure that is about 50 percent leased.
"It's got great bones, with its old-loft style. We're moving forward on that one as fast as we can," said Winshall, commenting that the tenants, including Eclisse Restaurant, will not have to vacate. Other major tenants at 700 Canal St., include Beeby Clark, Love Sac and United States Beverage.
Built in 1990, 850 Canal St. totals 70,000 square feet and is the newest of the structures. "It's well leased. The accounting firm McGladrey & Pullen is a major tenant, and the passport office just moved in. We have some vacant space on the first floor."
Cornell University operates a veterinary hospital at 880 Canal St., fully occupying the building.
But big changes are anticipated at the 90,000-square-foot building at 860 Canal St., which is about one-third rented.
"Our plans for that building are uncertain. That building will probably be emptied out at some time and undergo extensive work. We're honoring all of the tenants' leases," Winshall said, projecting that work will start in 2013 or 2014.
Plans call for the architectural and mechanical improvements without altering the appearance of the buildings.
Playing a key role in the refurbishment will be staff at Albert B. Ashforth, who will manage the eight acre complex.
"We're thrilled to be awarded this management assignment and to be part of this exciting and challenging repositioning project," said Brian Heelan. senior vice president and director of operations of Ashforth's management division. "With the new improvements and being located in the dramatically transformed South End, Harbor Square will be a very attractive place for
businesses to relocate."
With a comprehensive marketing plan, touting the proximity to the Stamford Transportation Center and mix of new residences, restaurants, stores and corporate offices at Harbor Point, Winshall is optimistic that ClearRock's new properties will quickly fill with tenants.
"It's a good location. It's hard to imagine that those buildings are not going to be successful," said Jack Condlin, president and chief executive officer of the Stamford Chamber of Commerce. "With its location, it's part of the South End and part of downtown. They've got the best of both worlds."


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Tina Fey and Paul Rudd star in director Paul Weitz's comedy about an uptight Princeton admissions officer who encounters a teenage prodigy who may be her long-lost son while recruiting students from an alternative high school. Years ago, Portia Nathan (Fey) quietly placed her newborn son up for adoption. Now she's got a great career recruiting students for Princeton University. Then, one day, she receives an unexpected call from her free-spirited college classmate John Pressman (Rudd), who runs an alternative high school that's home to some very gifted students. One such student is Jeremiah (Nat Wolff), whom John believes could be the son that Portia gave up for adoption back in her youth. Meanwhile, as Portia puts her career in jeopardy by altering Jeremiah's transcript, an unexpected romance begins to blossom.


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The city offers assistance to income-eligible Portage home owners with emergency repairs and housing rehabilitation in order to maintain decent, affordable housing and to promote neighborhood quality. In addition, the city offers residents of Kalamazoo County assistance with the purchase of affordable houses within target Portage neighborhoods. Click on housing programs for more information.
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The City of Portage Zoning Board of Appeals meets once per month to hear and act on applications for variances from the requirements of the Zoning Code. A review and consultation with staff can provide information regarding proposals for variances and is recommended prior to submitting an application. A Zoning Board of Appeals Application must be completed and submitted to the Department of Community Development for consideration by the Zoning Board of Appeals.
The City of Portage Neighborhood Support Program seeks to improve the livability of Portage neighborhoods. Being a good neighbor and properly maintaining property in accordance with the City Codes is an important part of maintaining a high quality of life for those who work and live in our community. Click the following link to Report a neighborhood concern by address to the Department of Community Development. For additional information please the Housing & Neighborhood Services section.
Zoning is the primary tool used to regulate the use of land in most communities. Zoning classifies land uses into certain categories referred to zoning districts. Some uses are permitted by right while others, referred to as special land uses, require review and approval by the Planning Commission. The zoning districts are then geographically displayed on a map of the community areas determined appropriate for the various types of land uses. Each zoning district has its own set of regulations that control the intensity of development by regulating, for example:
Information regarding the zoning designation for all properties located within Portage city limits is available on the GIS/City Maps. Land uses permitted within specific districts are found in the Zoning Code. A review and consultation with staff can provide information regarding current and planned future land use for specific areas, which may help clarify potential uses within zoning districts, or if a potential change in zoning is feasible. View the City of Portage Comprehensive Plan (PDF) to learn about recommended future land uses throughout the city.
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BugMe! v4.3 & BugMe! Messenger
Reviewed by: Jack Reikel, send e-mail Published by: Electric Pocket, Ltd., go to the web site Requires: PalmOS 3.1 or higher (OS 4.x or higher for screenshots); works on standard res or hi-res displays; wireless Bluetooth or WiFi-enabled PDA, network access for e-mail MSRP: $19.95 (BugMe!), $29.95 (BugMe! Messenger)
BugMe! enables PDA and smartphone users to hand write notes or sketches directly on the screens of their Palm Powered handhelds and set reminder alarms. Versions are available for Palm OS and Pocket PC PDAs, as well as Nokia Series 60 and Sony Ericsson P800 smartphones. You can beam BugMe! notes to other BugMe! users, exchange ideas and add depth to meetings, workgroups and personal schedules. We reviewed Bug Me! and BugMe! Messenger on a Palm Zire 71 (PalmOS 5.2.1) and a Palm M515 (PalmOS 4.1).
BugMe! Messenger adds another dimension. Like BugMe!, it also lets you take notes in your own handwriting or with Graffiti text and captures what you draw on your Palm PDA screen (sketches, drawings, maps, doodles). Messenger however lets you send notes wirelessly from your handheld to any Internet e-mail address. You can also import a photograph and annotate it with your own handwriting or add text with Graffiti. The content in your notes is automatically shown by desktop and web-based e-mail programs. If you send a BugMe! note with an alarm, the recipient gets the alarm in vCalendar format, making it possible to add the information to compatible diaries and schedulers. If you beam a BugMe! note to another Palm Powered handheld, your alarm goes with the note. BugMe! Messenger is fully integrated with IDEO's eyemodule and Kodak's PalmPix cameras. When we wrote this review (early October 2003), Messenger did not yet work automatically with the Palm Zire 71 built-in camera.
BugMe! Messenger comes with a free bugme.net e-mail address. Once you install the software, the registration process helps you set up your bugme.net e-mail account. BugMe! Messenger scans this address and delivers messages to your handheld.
The core of BugMe! is its note-based reminders and alarms. BugMe! lets you use your digital notes as visual alarms. Choose from pre-defined intervals such as "Bug me in an hour" or set an alarm for any time in the future using the date selector. There are dozens of different note templates which can be used to personalize everything.
In daily use for a little over 4 weeks, BugMe! proved very handy and provided a break from the mundane DateBook alarms and reminders (there's nothing like a little color or stationery to perk things up - I'm serious - especially when, on some days, you're almost literally living inside DateBook). We used BugMe! on a Palm Zire 71 and BugMe! Messenger on a Palm M515 equipped with a Palm Bluetooth card. We encountered no problems outside of a bit of crankiness with POP3 settings, which was traced to a mistake in the spelling of the incoming server name (mea culpa).
Cons: Some alarms locked the system, forcing a reset. The problem was traced to an incompatibility with Linkesoft's Screenshot and Beiks' BDicty Reader. Note that the problem only occurred when either Screenshot or BDicty was running and a BugMe! alarm popped up. Outlook (Microsoft Office XP version) is not known for its supreme friendliness to other e-mail applications and Microsoft's flagship e-mail program stayed true to form by periodically interfering with BugMe! Messenger's Internet. We solved that problem by changing Outlook's automatic e-mail check to 30 minute intervals. We don't know why that made a difference, but Outlook and BugMe! Messenger worked perfectly together afterward. Messenger only works with POP3 e-mail accounts - no help here for AOL and Hotmail users yet.
Pros: BugMe! and BugMe! Messenger are both very handy. We know that conventional e-mail works well, but if you're already in the midst of using your wireless equipped PDA (connected to a network via Bluetooth or WiFi), BugMe! can be very handy. Its integrated screenshot utility is useful not just for adding detail to BugMe! notes but also for projects and other work (you need to be using PalmOS 4 or higher). Graphic files sent to your bugme.net address are automatically formatted for your PDA. The ability to use drawings, photos and graphics as well as text is very convenient. Recommended.
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Exercise games: can getting fit ever be fun?
They call it 'exergaming' - but does it beat a gym regime?
The world is divided into two camps – those who like to run around in public and those who don't.
Most of us would rather throw our PCs in the toilet than heave our bodies at high speed around the pavements with one finger ready and primed to dial 999.
So it was the latter camp that was relieved when the concept of the exercise game sidled onto the market. Everyone's heard of the idea. Hell, there's probably a hermit in the Himalayas who, even now, is powering up his yak-driven PC and stepping onto his dance mat.
Apparently there's even a proper term for it. A portmanteau of "exercise" and "gaming", which leads to "exergaming", a quite horrible term that will, no doubt, be popular at health and fitness symposiums.
Those who love their PCs generally do love their games so finding out that we can limit the terrifying expansion of our guts (beer and World of Warcraft are perfect bedmates) while enjoying some kickass killing time seems like the perfect solution.
Before you head on over to your nearest online store to buy the best in exergaming gear on the market, read on to find out if it's really good enough to rely on for your health.
Let's face it, one of the main reasons exergaming is so popular is because you, theoretically, don't notice you're exercising.
Amusingly calling it 'stealth' gaming, Mobilis, specialists in medical and sports healthcare, found that "exercise by itself is too much to bear in its intense format and certainly very hard to sustain", and while they are talking of using exergames in rehabilitation, they may as well be talking about anyone with a busy life and a short attention span.
Dr Alasdair Thin, lecturer in human physiology (his blog: The Quest for the Perfect ExerGame can be found here) at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh agrees. When asked why he thinks exergaming has become so popular he says:
"Fun. Fun. Fun. One of the attractions of exergaming is that the exercise is secondary to the game play and that you are sufficiently absorbed by the game play to the extent that you are less aware of the physical sensations of exertion."
It was in 1982, when Atari launched the joypad that exercise games first started to pick up speed, with inventions ranging from the bizarre to the insane marching happily into gullible living rooms. Consider the Atari Puffer (1982), Exus Foot Craz (a clear forerunner of the modern dance mat in 1987), Nintendo Power Pad (1988) and the horrifying Nintendo PowerGlove (1989).
Whoever got suckered into the PowerGlove would have only achieved Jean Claude van Damme status by dint of having to wave their arms about like epileptic octopi in order to orchestrate the simplest of moves.
PCs were not forgotten in the race to make us thin and the RacerMate CompuTrainer, powered by the Commodore 64, for cyclists was launched in 1986 and continues on today, although these are pricey toys for the more dedicated soul.
Then, of course, the darling of exergaming hit the arcades in 1998, Dance Dance Revolution. As addictive to watch as it was to play, DDR soon developed a massive following. Stories of weight loss and increased fitness began to infiltrate the media at high speed, with the developers themselves admitting to having lost weight while perfecting the product.
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Sites like Get Up Move are packed with success stories, people talking about how much weight they've lost, how long it's taken them and what routines they followed.
The 2002 PC release was a hit – shy gamers could flail around in the privacy of their lounge while more confident fans could hold DDR parties ad nauseam.
The game is part social activity, part exercise routine and part gaming challenge; it's a unique cocktail that makes it addictive and entertaining enough to potentially work as an element of a daily exercise regime.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teens and young adults may want to pay attention to their cholesterol levels instead of waiting until later, when there is less room for improvement, according to a new study.
There is no ironclad proof that doing so would actually benefit anyone, and the idea that people under 35 should be screened for high cholesterol is controversial. But some doctors now believe the circumstantial evidence is strong enough to warrant earlier interventions.
In the latest study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers found that people with natural mutations associated with lower cholesterol throughout life had a consistently lower risk of heart disease.
And that risk reduction was three times bigger than what can be achieved with cholesterol-lowering medications when people are in their 60s, according to the report.
"The study doesn't suggest giving statins earlier would be beneficial, but it suggests lowering cholesterol earlier would be," said Dr. Brian Ference, who heads the Cardiovascular Genomic Research Center at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit.
"It is really important to emphasize a healthy diet and exercise to keep LDL cholesterol low early in life," Ference, who led the new work, told Reuters Health.
Heart disease is the leading killer worldwide and accounts for more than a third of deaths in the U.S., according to the American Heart Association. Every year, heart attacks alone kill some 400,000 Americans.
Today, doctors typically prescribe statins to people whose ten-year cardiovascular risk is high based on age, gender, cholesterol levels, smoking and blood pressure.
Statins lower LDL cholesterol, which contributes to the buildup of plaque in the heart's arteries that can snag blood flow and trigger heart attacks.
Ference and his colleagues figured that if cholesterol levels could be kept in check throughout life, maybe it would be possible to prevent the plaque from forming in the first place.
Instead of conducting a long and expensive experiment to test their idea directly, they resorted to genetic mutations as a proxy for lower LDL cholesterol.
These so-called SNPs (pronounced snips) are natural variations in a single building block of DNA that can be inherited randomly at the time of conception.
Based on previous studies involving nine different SNPs and more than 300,000 people, they found each mutation was tied to a considerable reduction in heart disease risk. What's more, the risk reduction was similar across the board - at about 55 percent - when analyzed per unit of cholesterol.
That suggests the drop in heart disease is caused by the lower cholesterol, and not some other factor linked to the mutations, said Ference.
By comparison, treating people in their 60s with a statin cuts their risk by some 20 percent, the researchers estimated based on two dozen earlier trials.
"Long-term exposure to lower LDL is three times more effective than starting later in life," Ference said. "The key is to keep your LDL cholesterol low starting as early as possible."
For people who can't get their cholesterol down by lifestyle changes, he added, "it may be reasonable to begin statin therapy in early adulthood."
But he acknowledged that only a gold-standard experiment can prove it's helpful to start early on the drugs, which may cause muscle and joint pain in the short run and whose long-term side effects are unknown.
Dr. Michael L. LeFevre of the government-backed U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said the idea of starting on cholesterol medicine earlier in life was likely to meet resistance in the medical community.
"One assumption underlying the conclusion recommendation is that it doesn't matter how one lowers cholesterol, it only matters how much. And with this study, for how long," he told Reuters Health by email.
"Studies of cholesterol medications have not uniformly supported the 'lower is better' assumption," LeFevre added. "A good example is that we know adding ezetimibe (a drug that lowers cholesterol absorption in the intestine) to a statin further lowers cholesterol, but it has not been demonstrated to further lower the risk of heart disease."
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For Kasabian's new single Underdog, they decided to do something original. After dreaming up a Guitar Hero style controller powered by soccer football players, they set out to make it happen. Using 5 wall mounted pressure sensors connected to a microcontroller, they hooked up the rig to a computer running Frets on Fire (an open source Guitar Hero clone) with a custom version of their single. After an afternoon of practice, the team was able to 5 star the song, and while this isnt the only or most complex Guitar Hero hack, we would love to have this in our house.
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20-Apr-2002 -- Phakisa, Welkom in sunny South Africa and the MotorGP 2002: it was the promise of a great motorcycle racing weekend that got us out there in the first place and the prospect of claiming a Confluence that got us arranging detours to find said hallowed piece of ground in a GPS heaven.
The Confluence we aimed for was 28S 27E, a Confluence as yet un-visited and set deep in a sunflower field in the Orange Freestate. The site is 3.9 km on a bearing of 214° true from the little town of Hennenman, itself 39.1 km on a bearing 211° true from Kroonstad, a bigger town on the M1 route between Johannesburg and Capetown. I arrived at 09H00 to rendezvous with a colleague for the attempt. The field was huge stretching to the horizon and carrying our motorcycle gear we scaled the barbed wire fence and plunged into a world of dried sunflower stalks planted in precise rows and dusty ground. We covered some 150 metres and crossed 83 rows of the crop before arriving at the point that the GPS claimed was the spot of confluence between line of latitude 28° and line of longitude 27°. This it proclaimed too, was with an accuracy of 3.8 metres and being a Garmin GPS V that cost a truly extraordinary sum of money, I saw no reason to argue. This also due to the fact that I generally lose arguments with most electronic devices and have long since decided to go with the flow or the readout in this case (see picture).
While my colleague busied himself with pictures I took stock of our surroundings and decided, that we truly have seasons in the sun when grown men can be out and about on touring on motorcycles, looking for an esoteric point like this confluence of lines of latitude and longitude in a field of sunflowers, in the Orange Free State, under the blued vault of a Southern African sky.


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EPIC has filed a Freedom of information Act lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security to force disclosure of the details of the agency's social network monitoring program. In news reports and a Federal Register notice, the DHS has stated that it will routinely monitor the public postings of users on Twitter and Facebook. The agency plans to create fictitious user accounts and scan posts of users for key terms. User data will be stored for five years and shared with other government agencies.The legal authority for the DHS program remains unclear. EPIC filed the lawsuit after the DHS failed to reply to an April 2011 FOIA request. For more information, see EPIC: Social Networking Privacy.


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Adam Benson is a CG Supervisor and Technical Director working in film and television creating award-winning visual effects for the world. He has worked as an advanced CG Generalist and Compositor, and has had high level professional experience in nearly all aspects of film and television production. His work as a visual effects artist includes titles like Star Wars: Phantom Menace, Stranger Things, Green Lantern, Thor, and The Mist. Known as a consummate problem solver, Adam also works as a software engineer and pipeline TD. Apart from code, he has been writing short stories, screen plays, novels and songs most of his life, and has been a semi-professional, touring guitarist and drummer. Adam is always switched on, and it always thinking. He has a passion for storytelling and wild creativity that is boundless in its possibilities. He is a man that knows that there is always a solution, and tenacity is the key to finding it.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- A Swedish inventor's experiments with a new power source for electric cars caused a bomb scare that paralyzed parts of the Danish capital, Copenhagen, for three hours on Tuesday.
Police said unusual wiring, copper pipes and suspicious objects found inside and outside Dan Zethraeus' car led them to believe it contained an explosive device, and they quickly evacuated buildings around the downtown underground parking garage where he had left it.
The security measures were lifted when bomb experts confirmed the device was "some kind of scientific experiment," police spokesman Hans Sinding said.
"It's a prototype of an invention that I'm developing that is meant to solve the vehicle traffic of the future," Zethraeus told The Associated Press by phone.
The idea is for the car to run on a "new type of electric road where you transfer electricity to the car while it's in motion," he said. "I am doing tests right now but I took a day off and drove to Copenhagen. I'm sorry that this was mistaken for something else."
He described his invention as a "device that powers the car with electricity from the road" but declined to give more details, saying the technology wasn't patented yet.
Zethraeus, who works as a project manager and director for Swedish Television, said he would remove the equipment from his car when going on road trips in the future.
Police had closed several busy streets around the Kongens Nytorv square and evacuated dozens of people from nearby buildings.
Denmark's intelligence service has said the country remains under a "serious" terror threat following the publication of newspaper cartoons lampooning the Prophet Muhammad in 2005, an act that offended many Muslims.
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Magebane has been shortlisted for the Regina Book Award in this year's Saskatchewan Book Awards.
The Regina Book Award is described this way: "In recognition of the vitality of the literary community in Regina, this award is presented to a Regina author (or pair of authors) for the best book, judged on the quality of writing."
Other shortlisted in the same category: Mark Cronlund Anderson & Carmen L. Robertson, for Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers (University of Manitoba Press); Wilfred Burton and Anne Patton for Call of the Fiddle (Gabriel Dumont Institute; illustrated by Sherry Farrell Racette and translated by Norman Fleury), Britt Holmström for Leaving Berlin (Thistledown Press), and Alison Lohans for Picturing Alyssa (Dundurn Press Ltd.).
The awards will be announced and presented at a gala dinner at the Conexus Arts Centre on April 28.
This is the fifth time I've been shortlisted for a Saskatchewan Book Award. Spirit Singer won the Regina Book Award in 2002 (that's when the photo is from). Soulworm was shortlisted for best first novel in 1997 and The Dark Unicorn for best children's book in 1998. J.R.R. Tolkien: Master of Imaginary Worlds was shortlisted for (if I remember right) best children's book in…2005, maybe?
It's nice to be nominated. It's even nicer to win, since it comes with a substantial sum!
UPDATE: It clearly pays to attend the news conference. I was featured on the CBC-TV spot about the announcement, talking about how important the recognition is to Saskatchewan writers, and I also managed to get myself featured in the Global TV and Regina Leader Post stories…although there are others nominated in multiple categories, and I'm only shortlisted in the one. So, win or not, I sure got good publicity out of it!


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Update #2 I've now finished going through the "forgotten" perltutorial nodes. I've added the ones that were clearly worth adding (imho) and considered the ones I wasn't sure about. (BTW, anyone know the two letter language abbreviation for Lithuanian? If so, please /msg me.) Update #2: Based on replies and /msgs, I've also gone ahead and added CGI as a section to Network Programming. It messes with the organization somewhat, but I think it may help. Let me know if it does, from the average monk's perspectively. I plan to leave things on the pad for a about a week or so. Unless there's great resistance or major rework needed, I'll probably commit the work next weekend or thereabouts, depending on RL needs. (As noted earlier, this work has been checked in.) --f In reply to Updating the Tutorials Node by footpad
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Olympus E-M5 High ISO Noise Reduction
The Olympus E-M5 offers four settings for noise reduction, or "Noise Filter" as the company calls it: "Off", "Low", "Standard" and "High". The user manual doesn't state at which ISO noise reduction kicks in, so we've started with the base ISO of 200 here to find out.
See for yourself how the Olympus E-M5's various noise reduction settings work under daylight-balanced lighting. Click on any of the crops below to see the corresponding full-sized image.
As you can see, the Olympus E-M5 applies noise reduction already at ISO 200, the base ISO. The E-M5's four noise reduction settings allow you quite a bit of flexibility in choosing how you want to make the trade-off between subject detail and noise levels in your JPEGs. The "Off" setting does not eliminate noise processing altogether, but it leaves the most fine/subtle subject detail, however shooting RAW will of course give you maximum detail and control.


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Instructions for installing, deploying, configuring Continuum for GlassFish.
To Install Continuum, you'll need the Continuum war.
Look at Procedure To Deploy From the Admin Console in GlassFish.
By default, the 'working directory' and the 'build output directory' are stored under the WEB-INF directory. If you want to change them (necessary on Windows due to the path length limitation), you can configure them in the Configuration page.